Gene Sharp Quotes
Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.
Gene Sharp
Quotes to Explore
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I have very eclectic tastes.
Carly Fiorina
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Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
Sam Sheppard
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Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.
Daniel De Leon
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Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
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The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.
Frances Beinecke
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There is no right in the world not to be offended. That right simply doesn’t exist. In a free society, an open society, people have strong opinions, and these opinions very often clash. In a democracy, we have to learn to deal with this. And this is true about novels, it’s true about cartoons, it’s true about all these products.
Salman Rushdie
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An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.
Pope Francis
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Coming just days before the presidential elections, it looks like yet another attempt by the Mugabe regime to obstruct the conduct of the election and the ability of the people of Zimbabwe to choose, freely and fairly, who should lead them.
Jack Straw
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We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.
Paul Robert Morley
Art of Noise
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New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.
Dustin Clare
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Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.
Jacob Artist
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Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.
Gene Sharp
